Robots: Nothing to lose but their chains – “Until humanoid robots are mass produced, robotic blobs, arms and devices that resemble spiders will pave the way. A lot more of these are coming to work in offices and homes, and some will do more than one thing…”

Airline Pilot Speaks Out On Flight Delays – “Before we take off, I would like to apologize on behalf of this and every airline for the hassle you just endured at the security checkpoint. As is patently obvious to any reasonable person, the humiliating shoe removals, liquids ban, and pointy-object confiscations do little to make us safer…”

Dive to Bermuda Triangle – “What are the biggest mysteries kept by the 1.5 million square miles of Atlantic we call the “Bermuda Triangle”? Take an interactive tour…”

$500 a month, free gas to drive a billboard – “Misha Di Bono zips around town in her Infiniti sports utility vehicle, breezy and unconcerned about the price of gas.
Misha Di Bono says people used to make fun of her rolling billboard. She gets $500 a month and free gas. That’s because she gets paid an extra $500 a month — plus free gas — for turning her car into a rolling billboard for Jobing.com, the online recruiting company she works for…”

Business Traveler’s Cheat Sheet: 75 Tips For Airport Warriors – “In addition to cost-saving hints, we’ve compiled additional tips and resources to make the most out of and get the best from your next corporate travel escapade…”

It’s mine, I tell you – “Mankind’s inner chimpanzee refuses to let go. This matters to everything from economics to law…”

Cloned immune cells cleared patient’s cancer – “A patient whose skin cancer had spread throughout his body has been given the all-clear after being injected with billions of his own immune cells. Tests revealed that the 52-year-old man’s tumours, which spread from his skin to his lung and groin, vanished within two months of having the treatment, and had not returned two years later…”

Bad guys really do get the most girls – “Nice guys knew it, now two studies have confirmed it: bad boys get the most girls. The finding may help explain why a nasty suite of antisocial personality traits known as the “dark triad” persists in the human population, despite their potentially grave cultural costs…”

Two-light years and then… enjoy the silence – “Two light-years for almost all of our transmissions. After that, even ginormous antennas turned exactly to our planet and listening to the right frequencies applying the necessary corrections would not be able to capture an intelligible signal. Even a 3.000 km antenna wouldn’t be enough to capture our TV transmissions from a distance greater than only 0,01 light-years away!”

Colossal construction: The world’s nine largest science projects – “From a science perspective at least, here are our picks for the largest projects on Earth: running, under construction, and on the drawing-board…”

How a forgotten Intel invention could revolutionize the CPU – “Seeing 32nm wafers at Intel’s Research Day was nice, but at the end of the day, 32 nm is just another manufacturing process. DRAM on the processor is actually what would make the greatest difference in performance in our opinion. According to two scientists we talked to, the potential bandwidth would quickly introduce us to the era of Terascale. If software developers can access a low-latency 200 GB/s bandwidth, many of today’s parallel programming problems could be resolved, since a cycle-miss could be reduced to near zero…”

The essence of happiness – “Why does payday feel good? You can’t eat money, and it can’t have your babies — so how did that ‘ker-ching!’ feeling become so sweet?”

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